Comment #19 on issue 500 by pekka.klarck: Possibility to specify 'Test Template' for all tests to ease data-driven testing
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=500
Adding variable support isn't that easy because templates are applied beforevariables are available. We are planning to refactor running in RF 2.6, and adding variable support then ought to be pretty easy. I submitted issue 566 about it.